Speaking to Daily Life at the end of the bruising parliamentary year, Ms Gillard revealed that while she can ‘’compartmentalise’’ the criticism directed at her, her partner, Tim Mathieson, feels it deeply.

‘’Sometimes we have a discussion about whether he’s watching it too closely, in the sense that he’s more at risk that it emotionally affects him than it emotionally affects me,’’ Ms Gillard said.

Last night Ms Gillard hosted about 25 female bloggers and web writers - whose sites reach about 2.5 million people - at Kirribilli House, as she gears up to use gender issues to maximum advantage in the coming election year.

Tim Blair
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Tuesday,
December,
11,
2012,(12:01pm)

Chris Matthews, a fellow Churchill Centre board member and host of MSNBC’s “Hardball,” has misquoted Churchill. Last year Mr. Matthews made a promotional ad for MSNBC in which he recounted Churchill being told during World War II that he should cut government funding for the arts.

“Then what are we fighting for?” Churchill replied, according to Mr. Matthews.

[Churchill scholar Richard] Langworth says Churchill never said it, though many over the years have used what Mr. Langworth calls “this famous ‘red herring’ nonquote.”

Mr. Matthews, a self-described “Churchill nut,” insists he hasn’t misquoted his hero, but adds, “How can you prove someone never said something?”

Tim Blair
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Tuesday,
December,
11,
2012,(12:33am)

Brilliant news:

At the end of another lavishly-funded U.N. conference that yielded no progress on curbing greenhouse emissions, many of those most concerned about climate change are close to despair.

If these tax-inhaling, progress-blocking, civilisation-hating hysterical religious mutants are unhappy, then we’re on the right track. Every single one of their tears is a balm to the soul. And now Earth Hour is under attack here in Sydney, the very city where holy darkness first gained Fairfax-sponsored fringe-level “popularity”. An enthusiast defends the unenlightenment:

Lord Mayor Clover Moore said Earth Hour was about “the people” showing conservative politicians that they were not happy with action against climate change.

“It enables ordinary people to express their concern and send a message to their national leaders. Ordinary people would not be happy with the action that has been taken ... because national leaders are not taking action doesn’t mean it’s not going to occur,” she said.

Nobody’s stopping these “ordinary people” from turning off their electricity all year long, Clover. One hour isn’t enough. Personally, I’m not happy with the action that has been taken.

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